Engineering Manager, Fraud & Identity Platform

Were transforming the grocery industry

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together

Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.

Instacart is a Flex First team

There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.

Overview Instacarts Fraud, Appeasement & Identity team protects the marketplace and everyone who depends on it: customers, shoppers, retailers, and brand partners

Within this team, the Identity Platform group builds and operates the core services that verify who our users are, secure their accounts, and provide trustworthy identity and eligibility signals to systems across Instacart.

Were looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Risk Platform team.

In this role

, youll own a critical part of Instacarts trust infrastructure across authentication, account lifecycle, identity verification, and graph and relationship modeling, while managing and developing a team of backend and platform engineers. Your work will directly influence fraud losses, account security, marketplace integrity, and Instacarts ability to scale responsibly while meeting evolving regulatory and privacy expectations.

This is a highly cross-functional, fast-moving role for a leader who enjoys building reliable platform systems, coaching strong engineering teams, and solving adversarial problems at scale

Youll partner closely with Product, Security, Fraud, Data Science, Legal, Operations, and external vendors to help shape the future of identity and risk at Instacart.

About the Job

Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for Identity and Fra